Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-28
THE LONG AND SHORT
MORE KICKS TO THE COMMISSION AGAINST
THE FOURTH SECTION.
The Michigan Central Suffering -AgriculturalstS Of
California Complaining Against Increased Prices
Of Implsmsnts-A Secretary, Five Clerks
and a Messenger Kept Busy.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 27.-General
Manager Mellen, of the Michigan Central,
telegraphs the Interstate Commerce Com,
mission deeply regetting the inability ol
the Commission to give immediate atten'
tion to the petition of his line, and says a
great deal of business is being contracted,
for delivery by lake lines for Duluth, and
the loss by delay is very great. "If l send
YOU verified statement of tonnage being
contracted for in the East via. Duluth and
of grain and -four of Minneapolis via.
Duluth. will it aid in our cause? We are
suffering"
James Smith, Jr., general solicitor OF
the St Paul and Duluth r. R. Company,
asks on behalf Of that company a-soaFing
in opposition to the petition Ofthe Chicago,
st. Paul and Omaha railway for release
from the operation of the fourth section.
AGRICULTURAL KICKS.
A number of firms of agriculturalists,
and horticulturalists in San joaquin val
lev, California, telegraphed that the man
ufacturers and dealers in agricultural I'M
plements have made advances IN their
wares, alledging that this is forced upon
them by the er-State-COmmerce act
Believing that the act is being so lnterpre-
ted as TO decrease the value of all they
have to sell and increase the price OF all
they buy these petitioners ask such relief
as it may be within the Commissions
power to grant.
NJ. A. Fulton, of Hudson, Wis, preferred
charges against the Chicago, st. Paul, and
Omaha road that the rates fixed upon
freight from Chicago to Hudson and inter
mediate points are unreasonable and un-
lust. He states that freight was carried in
large quantities in February and March
last ut less than half the present rates; that
the earnings were then sufficient to pay hall
the interest and dividends upon watered
stock.
THE KELLY ISLAND WINE COMPANY
in Lake Erie protests against the petitions
of the transcontinental lines except there
be q condition that the charges for west
bound freight shall not be greater than Tor
the same class cOmingeast. They say that
wines have been brought from the Pacific
coast to the Mississippi valley for % cents
a hundred, and so brought ut present for
20 cents hundred, while the west bound
wines are charged at the rate of s. 10
hundred from St. Louis TO Denver and
from Sandusky to Denver over $500. The
Commissions correspondence continues TO
be voluminous and widely varied in char
acter. There are before ii many quaint
personal complaints based upon simple
transactions Of the railroads, and many
more which are stated i'll general terms,
and informally for the purpose of getting
information as to the methods Of procedure
required by the commission. \ good deal
of personal advice comes in from the prairie
States, and a good deal Of ScOlding is mixed
with the prayers aud protests
from other sections. The inquiries
from representatives of leading commercial
and industrial interests in all sections in
dicate that when the public shall have
been fully instructed with regard TO the
necessary works of procedure, the Com
mission will hive is dockets full TO over
flowing of cases involving debate and
questions of great Importance to the com
munity other than those relating to the
long and short haul feature.
Secretary Mosely now has force OF five
clerks and messenger, and is classifying
the correspondence and rapidly answering
such inquiries as can be answered in ac-
cordance with the prccedents and rulings
already made by the Commission.
Reagan AssaiIs the Railroad Companies.
New YORK, April Ex-senator Reagan,
in letter to a Texas newspaper which is